[mythtv-users] Telly

[Ray Olszewski]

Josept -- I can't tell from what you wrote if you and I are disagreeing or 
not. Mostly, we are not (on the details, I mean), but here is where I am 
confused:

At 12:01 PM 7/16/2003 -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
[...]
>...recording is done 'off-line', in such a way as can be
>handled by a Via C3 processor.

What does "off-line" mean in this context?

Are you saying that the video is initially recorded, uncompressed, to a 
scratch file, then encoded at less than real-time after recording is 
completed? Honestly, I find it hard to believe that they are taking this 
approach with only 80 GB of hard-disk space in the standard box. (If I just 
did the math right, uncompressed captures, at 320x240x16-bit-color-NTSC 
take about 17 GB/hour ... not physically impossible with an 80 GB drive in 
the system, but not really practical for a consumer product either.

Or are you saying that a Via C3 can handle software encoding (at some 
plausible image size and color depth) if it is not simultaneously 
displaying to the screen?

Or are you saying something else?

How they are doing timed recording (not recording, or lack thereof, of live 
TV) seems to me the key to deducing what hardware is involved. I can't tell 
myself a believable story for how they are doing timed recording with this 
hardware if it does not include a hardware encoder ... but perhaps I'm 
overlooking some plausible setup.